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Item type:Publication, Paraguay 2022: Personalization Within a Strong Party System(Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, 2023-01-01)The year 2022 in Paraguay was marked by internal elections of political parties and scandals related to corruption, insecurity, and organized crime. Former president Horacio Cartes was elected as the new president of the governing ANR, and his candidate, Santiago Peña, won the ANR internal elections to become the ruling party’s presidential candidate in 2023. The article argues that in this context, the two traditional parties opted, paradoxically, for opposing strategies, albeit with strong personalistic elements in both cases. In a political system characterized by a combination of personalistic politics and strong party machines, Cartes achieved to dominate the political scene, despite accusations of corruption against him. We argue that he diverted the attention from the corruption charges to conservative anti-gender issues in the public agenda and used this discourse to win ANR internal elections in the second half of the year. We also show that the ossification of the Paraguayan party system had negative consequences for democracy in the country in 2022, related to the personalization of political parties, corruption scandals in politics, and increased public insecurity and drug trafficking. Although party system collapse is unlikely, we conclude the article by showing that Paraguay can offer some comparative lessons for democracy in other Latin American countries. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, La Ciencia Política y su enseñanza en Paraguay: transformaciones y desafíos de la disciplina(Universidad de Chile, 2025-07-26)La Ciencia Política y su enseñanza están débilmente institucionalizadas en Paraguay. La producción académica en esta disciplina es aún limitada y posee escasa inserción a nivel internacional. Este artículo argumenta que la enseñanza de la disciplina como una de las principales causas de su debilidad estructural. A su vez, la situación de su enseñanza refleja problemas más generales como la falta de financiamiento para la enseñanza, la inestable y limitada presencia de profesores con doctorados en Ciencia Política, la estructura curricular inadecuada o los escasos incentivos para la investigación. La investigación se basa en revisión documental, entrevistas a profundidad a profesores y estudiantes en las dos principales universidades que ofrecen programas de grado en esta disciplina en Paraguay y literatura secundaria.1 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Clientelism and Vote Buying in Latin America: Lessons from Comparing Paraguay and Guatemala(Universidad de Los Andes, 2025-04-16)Objective/context: Four decades after democratization in Latin America, particularistic ties—such as clientelism and vote buying—continue to exist between politicians and citizens in the region. This article seeks to understand how these practices have evolved over recent decades. Methodology: This study first draws on an original database encompassing all empirical articles from twenty-two Latin American political science journals and six Latin Americanist journals published between 2010 and 2022. It then examines two prototypical case studies based on secondary literature and press reviews. Conclusions: This article puts forward two main arguments. On one hand, clientelism and vote buying are relatively understudied in the region's leading journals, and there are distinct conceptual, methodological, and empirical approaches in Spanish- and English-language scholarship. On the other hand, the article argues that, with the weakening of Latin American political parties, the overall logic of particularistic ties in the region is shifting from party-based clientelism (as seen in Paraguay) toward vote buying through independent local leaders (as seen in Guatemala). Originality: This article contributes to the literature on the transformation of particularistic ties and how they are studied in Latin America. First, it provides an original content analysis of Latin American and Latin Americanist journals from 2010 to 2022. Second, it synthesizes the main features of clientelism and vote buying in Paraguay and Guatemala—two relatively understudied cases that, despite showing high levels of particularistic practices, serve as prototypical examples of these two phenomena.2